Quotes About Openness

I've always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it's rare that it has one side open.

Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.

Honest communication is a rare thing.

I find the Aussies are great and just let you be. The odd time, somebody has something smart to say, but it's very rare.

Maybe almost 20 years ago, I was like, 'God, I need to be more direct.' And I found times that I could practice it when it was maybe not my family or friends or co-workers. It's a quality that's rarely disliked.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.

I've always been the person at the table who is like, 'I have this weird rash. Anybody else have this?'

We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously.

I'm being my real raw self, and that's what I always preach anyway. What you see is what you get.

A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.

The more I work, the more I try to keep myself open like a raw nerve. When I feel things in a story, I want the audience to feel them as well.

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.

I prefer to be liberal and non-judgmental, which helps me reaching out to the people in a better way.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up.

I like to show my cards and see people's reactions.

Lee Strasberg taught me different ways in which a scene can be approached so that it is perfect. Acting schools also open you up - you react differently to each scene. It makes you a very reactive person.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.